Evacuation planning is critical for applications such as disaster management and homeland defense preparation. Efficient tools
are needed to produce evacuation plans to evacuate populations to safety in the event of catastrophes, natural disasters,
and terrorist attacks. Current optimal methods suffer from computational complexity and may not scale up to large transportation
networks. Current naive heuristic methods do not consider the capacity constraints of the evacuation network and may not produce
feasible evacuation plans. In this paper, we model capacity as a time series and use a capacity constrained heuristic routing
approach to solve the evacuation planning problem. We propose two heuristic algorithms, namely Single-Route Capacity Constrained
Planner and Multiple-Route Capacity Constrained Planner to incorporate capacity constraints of the routes. Experiments on
a real building dataset show that our proposed algorithms can produce close-to-optimal solution, which has total evacuation
time within 10 percent longer than optimal solution, and also reduce the computational cost to only half of the optimal algorithm.
The experiments also show that our algorithms are scalable with respect to the number of evacuees.
This work is supported by the Army High Performance Computing Research Center (AHPCRC) under the auspices of the Department
of the Army, Army Research Laboratory under contract number DAAD19-01-2-0014. The content does not necessarily reflect the
position or policy of the government and no official endorsement should be inferred. AHPCRC and the Minnesota Supercomputer
Institute provided access to computing facilities